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Kadachakka Payasam
Kadachakka/ breadfruit payasam is a quick dessert . You can make this with coconut milk and jaggery or with sugar.This is my mom's recipe. Here I have used sago pearls along with bread fruit to make this payasam. My mom some times makes it with small rice dumpling called kozhukatta.Give this recipe a try, you will surely love it. Ingredients
Bread fruit sliced- 3 cup
Sago pearls/ chowari-1/2 cup
Thick coconut milk- 1 1/2 cup
Thin coconut milk- 3/4 cup
Powdered jaggery- 1 cup
(Adjust according to sweetness you prefer)
Water- 3/4 cup
Cardamom crushed- 5-6
Chukku/dry ginger powder- a pinch (optional)
Sliced coconut- 3 tbs
Raisins and cashew nuts- a few Ghee- 2 tbs

To cook the sago boil 5-6 cups of water. Add the chowari and allow it to
boil for two to three minutes, drain and add fresh batch of boiling
water (again 5-6 cups) and continue cooking till it is clear and translucent. Strain and
run under cold running water and set aside.

Chakkakuru ularthiyathu is a quick and yummy stir fry made with jack fruit seeds. Jack fruit is a seasonal fruit and is available this time of the year. Just like the fruits the seeds are also yummy and is used to make curries, thoran and stir fry.

Wash chakka kuru/jack fruit seeds. Peel off the top white skin and scrape the
bottom red skin. Cut into 3-4 small pieces.
Using a mortar and pestle crush 3-4 pearl onion and ginger. Add this to the chopped jack fruit seeds along with turmeric, salt and half cup water. Cover and cook till it is soft and tender.
In the mortar pestle crush the dry red chilly, fen…

Jathikka Achar
Today's recipe is a spicy and tasty pickle-Jathikka Achar.It is made with of nutmeg fruit/Jathikkathodu. This is a guest post .Today I am extremely delighted, to have as a guest, my dear mother-in-law. She is wonderful cook and a big supporter of this blog from the beginning. A few days backs we were discussing over phone about various recipes and she agreed to share this recipe.She made this pickle and clicked pictures . Thanks Ammachi for sending this recipe to share.

Nutmeg is a popular spice used in cooking and baking .The nutmeg fruit is the fleshy outer covering. It splits open when the nutmeg is ready for harvesting. The nutmeg seeds/kernel is wrapped with a lacey red covering or aril (mace) which is also used as a spice. Both nutmeg and mace are extremely aromatic spices with a mildly sweet flavor.Nutmeg is rich in antioxidants and is used in traditional medicine to enhance digestion,as a pain reliever, anti depressant and also used for skin care.Just l…